I generally agree with you except nowadays there are “grinder resisting” u-locks that are very expensive, bit also effective. As usual it’s not like they are indestructible, but its just just a matter of more time and effort to get throught them

Here in this video there is one example, but it’s easy to find others: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO4h385PPUY

Personally I use an heavy duty chain, I don’t care much about weight (I already load my city bike with lot of stuff) and I can secure relatively quickly a around the frame. But if I had a more expensive bike I would probably use one of those fancy U-lock

The same can be said for Paris, but it’s still a remarkable result

Portugal is the major bike producer in Europe (even if i don’t know even one brand). The website doesn’t report that at all

https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20241120-2

it does contain chemicals, just like everything else

I don’t know: light, plasma don’t contain chemicals. Also neutron stars probably… There is a lot of stuff that dont contain chemicals, the problem is none of them is a good lubricant for bike chains AFAIK 😁

at the moment I’m using ikea basic candles, and I’m pretty happy with them! 😅

Futhermore, comments aren’t grouped in the post. They are separated from their parent element. And you need to crawl back the comment to find its original post.

if you use a client like Phanpy things become much better from that point of view. Strongly suggested

Ok, this makes sense, thank you

I don’t understand why authorities say this is not a terrorist attack

The guy clearly did this on purpose. Maybe you need to belong to a terrorism organization to do a terrorist attack?

I think I’m on the right side of history

Do you?

I had lobbyists from car companies threaten me in my own office.

Ok thos is the proof. If oil and car lobbyist are angry at you then you definitely are on the right path!

I think that the lightest you can get is SNAC: written in portable C, it requires only an ngix server, and no database.

It’s ideal for single used instances or automated projects

Here some background and how tos: https://encrypted.tesio.it/2024/12/18/how-to-run-your-own-social-network.html

And here the description of fedimeteo, that provides forecasts for thousands of cities on the fediverse using a slim low cost vps’ https://it-notes.dragas.net/2025/02/26/fedimeteo-how-a-tiny-freebsd-vps-became-a-global-weather-service-for-thousands/

I “love” how we need to keep on studying things that are flat out good for society while bad things just get rolled out without the same onus of proof.

Things that need to be proven over and over and over:

• Universal Basic Income

• Walkable cities prioritising pedestrians, bicyclists, and transit

• Low speed limits for cars

• No-strings housing for homeless

• High taxes for the rich

And the list goes on and on… why do we make it so hard to improve our society while making it so easy to ruin it?

Source:

https://social.ainmosni.eu/@ainmosni/statuses/01JRW8RRB5RCHZZYBHW2WYKHZE

That line is something we really need. But I think it’s far from being enough to revive anything more than 50 km away from Bari…

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This was easy

Perfetti, an italian company, tha I just discovered merged with a dutch company!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfetti_Van_Melle

No pu(ti)n intended I guess!

Oh, ok, I wasn’t aware. I will try to crosspost this later,

I don’t understand. Is there an issue in that community? (I’m not ironic)

Thank you, great to hear all my points are being addressed! The thing about post rendering, well, I just hope a common solution is found 😊

thank you! I will keep an eye on those

Nah… Missing IMHO:

• Strava like
• IMDB like
• stackoverflow like
• google maps review like